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Why Bill Shorten seems to be living in a never-ending soap opera
Bill Shorten’s expensive speech writer specialises in far-fetched plots with overwrought characters. And she writes TV dramas too.
Rowan DeanSatiristUpdated
The world of financial waste was rocked to its core this week with the shock news that Minister for the NDIS and one-time Labor leader Bill Shorten relies on the $620,000 skills of a former Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice TV soap opera writer to polish his speeches.
“I have a true love of carving eloquence from the clumsy and verbose,” she claims. She surely must …
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